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Jupiter man charged with DUI after 16 open beer bottles found in truck

As Garland Morrison found himself being placed in a Florida Highway Patrol car on Interstate 95 on Thursday night, he spontaneously uttered a confession.

“I had a little too much to drink tonight,” Garland, 36, of Jupiter reportedly told a trooper as he was arrested for DUI. Morrison remained in custody at the Palm Beach County Jail on Friday night after a judge set his bail amount at $3,000.

According to an FHP arrest report, a trooper found 16 open bottles of Coors Light beer in Morrison’s pickup along with more than a dozen alprazolam pills. His car was stopped on southbound I-95 shortly after 11:30 p.m. Thursday near Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach after a trooper observed him driving slowly in a center lane and his tires straddling the highway’s white lines.

While checking to see if Garland was OK, the trooper noticed that his eyes were glassy and bloodshot and his breath had the smell of alcohol, the arrest report said.

Garland reportedly agreed to perform roadside sobriety tests, but was unsteady on his feet. He later took a series of breathalyzer tests, at one point recording a sample of 0.245 – more than twice the state’s legal limit.